Mark Strickland September 2009 statement concerning The Children of Dachau series
I hope that they (the artworks) can represent the idea of the guilt held by the families of the National Socialists looking back through the window of time at the crimes of their fathers. The memory of children who were murdered hang upside down from the necks of their torturers, The upside down children also fall out of the skullcaps of the guilty. They are painted in red. For guilt? For Blood? For a tortured memory, like in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, In the hands of some of the murderers, they are tearing at the bloody memories of the dead children that they can never wash away. In the images toward the right, that I was not able to send but one from the twelve, all the memories pile on top of each other and rise up with the souls of the guilty, as they themselves depart at their deaths, in an abstraction of upward movement, reminiscent of smoke from the chimneys, carrying with them forever, their legacy.
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Mark Strickland September 2009 statement concerning The Children of Dachau series
I hope that they (the artworks) can represent the idea of the guilt held by the families of the National Socialists looking back through the window of time at the crimes of their fathers. The memory of children who were murdered hang upside down from the necks of their torturers, The upside down children also fall out of the skullcaps of the guilty. They are painted in red. For guilt? For Blood? For a tortured memory, like in Shakespeare’s Macbeth, In the hands of some of the murderers, they are tearing at the bloody memories of the dead children that they can never wash away. In the images toward the right, that I was not able to send but one from the twelve, all the memories pile on top of each other and rise up with the souls of the guilty, as they themselves depart at their deaths, in an abstraction of upward movement, reminiscent of smoke from the chimneys, carrying with them forever, their legacy.
Comment by aylwardnow October 4, 2009 @ 12:39 am